The White Falcon
Isoda Koryusai (Japanese, active about 1764-1788)
1780
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; ishizuri-e
- Classification
- Dimensions
- 88.8 × 29.5 cm (35 × 11 5/8 in.)
- Culture
- Japan
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Isoda Koryūsai was catering to the tastes of warriors, who used falcons for hunting, when he designed this image of a proud white falcon set against a solid black background. The print’s large size is reminiscent of the more formal hanging-scroll paintings typically collected by the samurai class. It is one of the few hand-colored prints the artist made using a complex technique that mimics stone rubbing.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
